The Frye Art Museum continues to strategically build its collection through purchases and gifts, both deepening existing areas of strength and diversifying holdings to reflect the museum’s expansive curatorial program and Seattle’s globalized present.
Acquisitions of the last ten years demonstrate the museum’s commitment to growing and contextualizing its distinctive historical collections of late nineteenth- and twentieth-century European and American art while broadening its holdings of contemporary works to embrace previously underrepresented identities, perspectives, and forms of expression. To some extent, acquisitions mirror the museum’s exhibition history, creating a material record of the institution’s engagement with local, national, and international artists and commemorating the special audience connection formed through temporary presentations. Contemporary artworks chosen for the collection often respond to or complicate the narratives around mediums and genres traditionally associated with the Frye, like painting, landscape, and portraiture.
Valenzuela, Rodrigo
Boafo, Amoako
Crowell, Web
Gutierrez, Gabriella
Calderon, Mark
Ojih Odutola, Toyin
Verboeckhoven, Eugène-Joseph
Spafford, Michael
Workman, Tom
Apsit, Aleksander
Wokoma, Inye
Chew, C.T.
Warhol, Andy
Peters, Mary Ann
Chwala, Fritz
Alley-Barnes, Maikoiyo
Tsutakawa, Mayumi
Valenzuela, Rodrigo
Fried, S. Daniel
Warhol, Andy
Nestler, Rose
Raschen, Henry
Maxwell, Noemie
Smith, Scott
The Black Constellation
Sparling, Presha
Lissitzky, El
Valenzuela, Rodrigo
Dakron, Ron
Machetanz, Fred
Wechsler, Sadie
Butler, Ishmael
Bishop, Jeffrey
Soldi, Rafael
Henry, Mary
Simpson, Buster
Struck, Rebecca
Ramsay, Francis Dennis
Shapiro, Ann Leda
Ingram, C. Davida
Self, Tschabalala
Hazleton, Lesley
Fiset, Joan
Warhol, Andy
Haerizadeh, Ramin
Berk, Leo Saul
Davidson, John
Fidman, Vladimir Ivanovich
Valenzuela, Rodrigo
Guerra, Jose Rodriguez
Warhol, Andy
Aranda, Juventino
Unknown
Muñoz, Rie
Lasker-Schuler, Else
The Black Constellation
Fontaine-Carlson, Mary
Moor, Dimitrii S.
Valenzuela, Rodrigo
Whitman, Walt
Park, Joseph
Armstrong, Gretchen Adele
Browning, Matt
Fejes, Claire
Moor, Dimitrii S.
Valenzuela, Rodrigo
Williamson, Robyn
Vaughan, Molly Jae
Bruch, Cris
Dahl, Hans
Zuckerman-Hartung, Molly
Levine, Stacey
Sparling Beckley, Chase
Simpson, Buster
Ojih Odutola, Toyin
Fullmer, Ray
Shulman, Sondra
Moor, Dimitrii S.
Wokoma, Inye
Kimes, Marion
Warhol, Andy
Mitchell, Jeffry
Valerianov, Nikolai
Spinks, Thomas
The Black Constellation
Tsutakawa, George
Valenzuela, Rodrigo
Kraftt, Robert
Warhol, Andy
Nestler, Rose
Deni, Viktor
Engelmeyer, Joan
Crispwick, Mr.
Irons, Stasia
Mee, Nancy
Moor, Dimitrii S.
Valenzuela, Rodrigo
Klebeck, Michael
Lowly, Tim
Wokoma, Inye
Chickadel, Carmine
Fenton, Anne
Henry, Mary
Ivanov, Sergei
Simpson, Buster
Roche, Judith
Valenzuela, Rodrigo
Harvey IV, Harry Gould
Berk, Leo Saul
Self, Tschabalala
Fisk, Steve
Christie, Leona
Warhol, Andy
Simakov, Ivan
Steinbrueck, Victor
Guzak, Karen
Valenzuela, Rodrigo
Bertolino, James
Warhol, Andy
Yamahira, Ko Kirk
Unknown
Predil, Viktor A.
Stern, Chris
Faye, Jules Remedios
May Day 1920. Over the Ruins of Capitalism Toward the Brotherhood of the Workers of the Whole World!
Kochergin, Nikolai
Valenzuela, Rodrigo
Calderwood, Nancy
Warhol, Andy
Linklater, Duane
Raschen, Henry
Blevins, Don
Meira do Valle, Juliana
Fejes, Claire
Valenzuela, Rodrigo
Dennis, Lockwood
McDaniel, Gisela
Rivers, Gene
Bradford, Katherine
Joseph, Kahlil
Blocker, Mare
Focke, Anne
Ojih Odutola, Toyin
Unknown
Woodring, Jim
Hamrick, Sam
Woodring, Jim
Wokoma, Inye
Guinn-Gilles, Glenda
Warhol, Andy
Rahmanian, Hesam
Rodchenko, Alexander
Bremner, Alison
Mitchell, Jeffry
Tsutakawa-Chinn, Kenzan
Unknown
Valenzuela, Rodrigo
Cavazos, Xavier
Warhol, Andy
Smith, Cauleen
Jet, Jimmy
Beyers, Margi
Harris-White, Catherine
Hunter, Paul C.
Moor, Dimitrii S.
Valenzuela, Rodrigo
Emminger, Joe Max
Warhol, Andy
Akashi, Kelly
Valenzuela, Rodrigo
German, Jim
Juvonen, Helmi Dagmar
Hopper, Janette K.
Cheremnykh, Mikhail
Simpson, Buster
Noah, Barbara
Pokorny, Eva
Seifu, Eden
Berk, Leo Saul
Boafo, Amoako
Crowell, Web and Stacey Levine
Paquette, Virginia
Warhol, Andy
Hickmann, Fritz
Moor, Dimitrii S.
Reder, C.
Bernstein, Steven J.
Apsit, Aleksander
Laurence, Sydney
Christie, Leona
White, Anthony
Itter, Julian E.
Bard, Gayle
Moor, Dimitrii S.
Valenzuela, Rodrigo
Chacona, George
Warhol, Andy
Siegel, Amie
Raschen, Henry
McMahon, Gene Gentry
Gardiner, T. Michael
Alley-Barnes, Maikoiyo
Yamamoto, Traise
Valenzuela, Rodrigo
Pan Gongkai
Lyons, Kat
Johnson-Ricks, Khari
Joseph, Kahlil
Lindsay, Vachel
Troyon, Constant
Lesperance, Ellen
Unknown
Wokoma, Inye
Jones, Fay
Ramsay, Francis Dennis
Quaicoe, Otis Kwame Kye
Mullin, Paul
Robalino, Mauricio
Warhol, Andy
Haerizadeh, Rokni
Isenberg, I.
Britto, Romero
Browning, Matt
McCue, Frances
Valenzuela, Rodrigo
Baker, Alex O.
Warhol, Andy
Reskala, Georgina
Tyshler, Aleksandr
Schneider-Blumberg, Bernhard
Crispwick, Mrs.
Alley-Barnes, Maikoiyo
Law, Carolyn
Triebel, Carl
Valenzuela, Rodrigo
Paschkis, Julie
Ramirez, Bony
Zaher, Maged
Evans, Dennis
Unknown, American
Fejes, Claire
Deni, Viktor
Rosa, Salvator (attributed to)
Allen, Judith
Chowdhury, Srijon